 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1894 - 1066 pages
...too, the words of a greater poet — " The low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it ; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. The low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit ; The high man, aiming at a million,... | |
 | 1903 - 848 pages
...inimitable. "That low man," says Browning, That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; That high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. Professor Maitland has lately applied these noble verses with singular felicity to Lord Acton. Clearly... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...And this is the moral of the tale :— That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies...hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses a unit. That has the world here — should he need the next, Let the world mind him ; This throws... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...Yes. " Hence with life's pale lure ! " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it : This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies...hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here — should he need the next, Let the world mind him ! This,... | |
 | 1856 - 542 pages
...Yes. " Hence with life's pale lure ! " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and docs it : This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies...hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here — should he need the next, Let the world mind him ! This,... | |
 | 1856 - 538 pages
...high man, with a great thing to pursue, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, Misses an unit. That, has the world here—should he need the next, Let the world mind him ! This,... | |
 | John Nichol - 1860 - 258 pages
...only because it aimed too high ? '* That low man seeks a little thing to do — Sees it, and does it. This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Neither can we, till after a long cycle of events, make success a test of national virtue. Power may... | |
 | Sir George Young - 1862 - 120 pages
...narrowness and inutility. CHAPTER III. " This low man, with a little thing to do, Sees it, and does it. This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies, ere he knows it. That, has the world's good; if he need the next, Let the world mind him! This throws himself on God, and... | |
 | Museum and English journal of education - 1863 - 576 pages
...close of the Grammarian's funeral : " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it, and does it ; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. " That has the world here, should he need the next Let the world mind him ; This throws himself on God, and... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1866 - 120 pages
...man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it : This high man, with a great thing to puisne, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred 's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here,... | |
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That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. 
